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Originally Posted by Vodstok
Oh jesus, you reminded me.
Resident Evil.... I would like to say ANYONE but Paul Anderson, but isuppose i should be more specific. Romero supposedly had a screenplay that incorporated more monsters from the game than 2. Needless to say, it probably would have excluded Mila Jovovich as the ass-kicking chick who really looks like she would lose a fight with a noodle. (she didnt even have muscles, come on....)
I would say David Fincher could do a good job, especially if he was a fan of the game.
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I LOVE David Fincher as a director, but I think that Neil Marshall would do a fantastic job on the Resident Evil series. He did Dog Soldiers and The Descent, so it's clear that he can do some pretty damn good and threatening beasties (not to mention, he already has a hand on the horror genre). I think that he would have been able to make the Resident Evil series a lot more gritty, realistic, and bloody. I also think that he would have been able to cast a more suitable female lead (good call on that one).
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I recently saw Choke and I have to say that I was honestly unimpressed. Clark Gregg purposefully directed a very muted, stoic character piece when, honestly, this was a pretty dark, macabre, and disgusting book (to be clear, I mean "disgusting" in the most endearing way; I LOVED the book). The movie itself was... Boring. It NEEDED to be more shocking and disturbing, especially in a sexually deviant sort of way.
Since David Fincher did such a fantastic job with Fight Club, I initially considered that he should have done Choke, but I am honestly not so sure. I think that he can handle action and violence, but in terms of sexual taboo and discomfort, it's not something that I've seen him do (not to say he CAN'T, but I just haven't seen it). Then again, I think that Fight Club was supposed to be more sexually explicit, but some pieces wound up on the cutting room floor ("I want to have your abortion," for one).
I wonder if perhaps David Lynch should have handled Choke. Though, it should be the Wild At Heart David Lynch, not the Eraserhead David Lynch... And I'm not sure he's at that point of his career anymore.
Or perhaps Lucky McKee should have taken a stab at it; he made an AMAZINGLY uncomfortable and macabre character study in May and perhaps he could have done justice to Choke. What we needed was to truly show how incredibly dark the main character is. Oh, and more gross sex. We definitely did NOT get that with Gregg's film.